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2013 Cap Issues

So I was doing a little research on our financial forecast for this coming draft and free agency period, since I think that this will be an exciting time. Here is our current roster of base salaries going into next year.

The bad news is however that this puts us over 4 million dollars over the cap again this offseason, with the expectation that the flat cap stays at 120.6m for all teams. We must also take into account a very high draft pick. In the new CBA these picks only get paid a minimum of 390k but if we do select someone that high its doubtful they come that cheap (the optional fifth year they get an average of the top ten at that position).

Really hope RM starts axing some of these guys there is a very talented free agent class this year. Also I believe that the new CBA lets us avoid all cap hits for cut players during the offseason.

So it looks as if we will need to cut players again who are grossly overpaid. These numbers also do not count incentives that fall into the "likely to be earned" category and will reflect on our cap space.

And the bad news never ends...geez! Well I can seen Palmer, DHB, and maybe one more player restructuring, and several others being cut. Still, this isn't good because Reggie will once again be strapped to acquire decent free agents and signing drafted players. However, I can see that cutting anyone on this team will not be a problem, and it also won't affect the team that much cause we cannot get any worse.

Just wanted to check math and the total you are showing is 77.035 million what is the dead money and everything else that puts us over the cap. Just tryong to see your full point.

Sorry I tried to condense this to make the thread a little smaller in initial size. The contracts that I posted were base rates. The other money that is crushing us is all incentive based or signing bonuses. If incentives are deemed "likely to be achieved" they hit the cap. I will show you a couple examples really quick.

First tyvon branch I have listed as 6m when in reality his cap hit is much greater. It is sitting at: In 2013- $6 million base plus $3.5 roster bonus plus $1.4 million prorated signing bonus. $10.9 million cap hit.

Like I have said in many other posts, It's going to take a while to clean up the mess that Al Davis left behind and The bad trades that cost us our draft picks will hurt us for at least the next couple of years.

The highlighted need to released and the asterisk restructured. When you lose in the trenches you lose football games, simple.

The 2012 starting over was an epic failure, those players should have been moved long ago.

The company is worth 800 million dollars, you supply critical coaching positions to multiple rookies? This is beyond dysfunctional i`m sorry.

Without a genocide of player movement, the Oakland Raiders continue to be dreadful.

Lechler, Branch, Mitchell and Ford should also seek employment elsewhere.

2013 should be devoted to real movement and change, the current illusion was long over before it started. RM must enforce a major flush, If he doesn`t I wouldn`t expect seeing him in Oakland for very long, multiple slugs will get him removed which may not be a bad idea, I`m not a fan of any of the hires.

So I was doing a little research on our financial forecast for this coming draft and free agency period, since I think that this will be an exciting time. Here is our current roster of base salaries going into next year.

The bad news is however that this puts us over 4 million dollars over the cap again this offseason, with the expectation that the flat cap stays at 120.6m for all teams. We must also take into account a very high draft pick. In the new CBA these picks only get paid a minimum of 390k but if we do select someone that high its doubtful they come that cheap (the optional fifth year they get an average of the top ten at that position).

Really hope RM starts axing some of these guys there is a very talented free agent class this year. Also I believe that the new CBA lets us avoid all cap hits for cut players during the offseason.

So it looks as if we will need to cut players again who are grossly overpaid. These numbers also do not count incentives that fall into the "likely to be earned" category and will reflect on our cap space.

Good work, I was curious to how the cap situation looked going into 2013. Thanks for putting that together.

Trading McClain / Seymour and Kelly is the top priority and that's if Seymour doesn't retire after this season with all his knee problems. Trading DMC for a high 3rd if not low 2nd round pick will help us acquire a CB. This years draft class is very weak trading down in the 1st to a team like the Niners (30th) and while getting another 3rd round pick or even another second allows us to stack our roster with defense at low round cost. We should throw Seymour on season ending injury reserve and resign Jarvis moss to back up Andre Carter so syemour takes a hint that his time is up.